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Join us on Twitter and LinkedIn – New Deliverables Published

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The CLARITY partners have been working hard over the summer on a number of deliverable reports that aim to present the stakeholders present in the open eGovernment ecosystem as well as mapping drivers and needs.

These deliverable reports are all available on the CLARITY Downloads page, along with other deliverables regarding the communication and dissemination of CLARITY results. Each lead partner will summarise the findings into blog posts, so watch this space.

The CLARITY partners are currently organising three foresight focus groups for open eGovernment stakeholders in Sweden, Spain and The Netherlands. These groups will meet in October 2016 to discuss future scenarios for eGovernment applications and the take-up of smart government services. The focus groups will have a mix of stakeholder groups from across different service areas.

The CLARITY Sprint Event will be held in Amsterdam in December 2016, and will be a week long event, which will include three days of development workshops and a two day conferences for the purpose of presenting solutions developed, with the aim of exchanging best practices. The CLARITY partners will start advertising this event soon, here on the website, in a newsletter, on twitter and LinkedIn.

The CLARITY open eGovernment marketplace is under development and will be launched soon. It will be an open source platform, which will feature a catalogue of open eGovernment services in the form of a description, case studies of use, testimonials and will allow for the sharing and downloading of code to aid developers across domains and borders.

The internet is a technology ‘commons’ unlike anything before – a shared benefit and shared responsibility for all of its users. It was never designed to perform the tasks it is expected to perform, and it is certainly not future proof as-is. We need to do better in making sure that the internet as a shared global technical and social infrastructure is able to carry its heavy responsibility. This is especially relevant as we are about to embark on fascinating new journeys where we depend entirely on a safe, secure and open internet as a carrier - including an expected flood of connected devices on the outside and inside of our bodies, vehicles, buildings and infrastructure.

The sharing economy is having an enormous impact on our cities. In the coming years new technological developments will change them even more drastically. The question is: who owns the platforms? The Google's and Airbnb's of this world, who are unaccountable and primarily in it for the money? Or the platform cooperatives, who focus on open technology, the commons and actual sharing? Should we take it one step further and radically change our economic thinking?

Brand new data and cyber security policy from the Department of Health (UK) addresses gaps in eHealth service provision identified the by CLARITY consortium. Just days after the CLARITY consortium submitted their Gap Analyses, which highlights gaps within the current provision of open eGovernment services, the UK Department of Health has announced plans to increase spending on cyber and data security to more than £50m, and also for introducing digital systems that allow patients to track how their data is used, and by whom. This report thus responds to the following gaps highlighted in CLARITY work so far.

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The CLARITY project supports European Member States in their pursuit for greater trust, transparency and efficiency within their open eGovernment initiatives and highlights best practice within this field.